#ions

So the poet, who wants to be something that he cannot be, and is a failure in plain life, makes up fictitious versions of his predicament that are interesting even to other persons because nobody is a perfect automobile salesman. ↗

— Allen Tate

#because #cannot #even #failure #fictitious

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What we do may be godly, but this sacrament is God Himself! ↗

— Johannes Tauler

#comparison #devout #every #exalted #exercise

At a time when we are facing threats from nations such as North Korea and Iran, and attempting to convince others such as India and Pakistan to become responsible nuclear powers, it is vital that America reclaims the leadership we once had on arms control. ↗

— Ellen Tauscher

#arms #attempting #become #control #convince

The great armies, accumulated to provide security and preserve the peace, carried the nations to war by their own weight. ↗

— A. J. P. Taylor

#carried #great #nations #own #peace

The usual way - through a long series of rejections, revising my manuscripts, and kept trying again and again. Finally I was fortunate enough to find a good agent. ↗

— Danielle Steel

#agent #enough #finally #find #fortunate

I like to put on hardcore when I have to clean my apartment, which I hate to do, but it's motivational. I like old heavy metal when I'm outside working on my car. Music has definite functions for me. ↗

— Peter Steele

#car #clean #definite #functions #hardcore

In love, unlike most other passions, the recollection of what you have had and lost is always better than what you can hope for in the future. ↗

— Stendhal

#better #future #had #hope #lost

Never make predictions, especially about the future. ↗

— Casey Stengel

#especially #future #make #never #predictions

Unions should not be lapdogs to a political party, they should be watchdogs for their members' interests. ↗

— Andy Stern

#members #party #political #political party #should

Saying you have a political solution is like saying you can write a pop song that's going to stay at the top of the list forever. I don't have many illusions about this, but I'm not cynical about it. ↗

— Bruce Sterling

#cynical #forever #going #i #illusions